Niall Ferguson
Scottish-American historian; Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a columnist at The Free Press. Author of The Ascent of Money (2008), Civilization (2011) and Doom (2021). Writes the Time Machine newsletter on history and current affairs.
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Their wordsThe French (and British and Italian) fiscal crisis is at root due to generational imbalances in welfare and tax systems, exacerbated by reflexive Keynesian spending every time anything nasty happens (a financial crisis, a pandemic, a war, an energy shock).
↗Why Europe Is Burningniallferguson.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWith a few exceptions, the various European models are in the early phase of a nosedive into insolvency.
↗Why Europe Is Burningniallferguson.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe result is approximately 3,400 hours of audio files that provide the most comprehensive, behind-the-scenes documentation of an American presidency that there has ever been, or ever will be.
↗The Nixon Tapes, Unlockedniallferguson.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOn the contrary, rather than reaffirming the old narrative, now half a century old, that there was something uniquely wicked about Richard Nixon's administration, they make the listener suspect that most of what went on in Nixon's Oval Office was probably not very different from what has gone on, before and since, when other presidents sat in the same place.
↗The Nixon Tapes, Unlockedniallferguson.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece